Yard Defender

MANAGE STINGING AND BITING PESTS OUTSIDE

Fleas, ticks, mound-building ants, and other bloodsucking pests can quickly ruin outdoor time with painful stings or dangerous bites. The Mosquito Squad® Squad Yard Defender package is the ultimate solution for protecting your yard from over 20 types of crawling, biting, and stinging pests—including fleas, ants, fire ants, and ground-burrowing wasps. Our targeted treatments focus on shaded areas where fleas and ticks primarily hide and use specialized methods to help control ant mounds and help deter new colonies. 

The foundation for our Squad Yard Defender package is our Barrier Treatment Plus, which eliminates up to 90% of mosquitoes and other pests and continues to protect your yard for up to three weeks. Our technicians will then apply a combination of baits and additional products to help combat the pests that can burrow and hide beneath the surface of your yard. 

When you sign up for the Squad Yard Defender package, you receive: 

• A combination of flea and tick treatment for yards, prescriptive baiting, and ant mound-drenching techniques

• Core Barrier Treatment Plus package, designed to guard against common insects like mosquitoes, ticks, flies, and spiders

• Essential Botanical Insecticide Repellency: Made with plant-based technology, our proprietary, water-based insecticide combines five essential oils to create an extra layer of defense, helping effectively target, repel, and reduce pests in your yard for up to 21 days.

HOW OUR COMBINED OUTDOOR ANT, FLEA, AND TICK CONTROL WORKS

Our 3-step Squad Yard Defender approach:

• Inspection – Knowing that fleas and ticks prefer moist, shady, and cool places, our trained professionals look for these areas in your yard.  We also inspect tall grass, natural areas bordering managed turf, and low-lying areas that are especially damp.  Mound-building ants tend to be most visible after heavy rains when colonies are excavated.  

• Treatment –  Our EPA-registered flea and tick yard spray can kill pests on contact, disrupts flea and tick lifecycles, and continues to deter fleas and ticks for up to 21 days.  We periodically apply granules to help control immature stages of these pests and disrupt the lifecycle to help protect your yard.  To treat ants, we combine targeted mound drench applications with granular ant bait applications to help eliminate and prevent future mounds.

• Ongoing management – After your initial treatment, we recommend keeping up with continued services to manage small ant hills and use specialized baits to help prevent them from becoming massive colonies.  Tick and flea populations can be controlled through granular treatment applications in the spring and late summer as well as targeted barrier applications in “tick zones.”

The Potential Dangers of Biting and Stinging Pests

Ticks and fleas are both vectors of disease that feed on the blood of their host.  Fleas can pass along harmful parasites, such as tapeworms, and bacterial disease, such as Typhus. Common diseases transmitted by ticks include Lyme disease, Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever, and Q fever.

Mound-building ants, such as pavement and fire ants, can leave you with painful and itchy spots that blister.  They can also harm your property as they destroy nearby vegetation and negatively impact landscaping.  

Fire ants commonly build their mounds in damp soil and grass which can lead to many small biting insects in areas where children and pets play.  These bites can cause infections or even anaphylactic shock.

Schedule a Professional Combined Ant, Flea, and Tick Yard Treatment

Protect yourself and your loved ones from bites and stings and enjoy your yard in peace!  Make the management of dangerous pests easy with the help of our Squad Yard Defender. Call today at (877) 332-2239 or contact us online for a free quote.

SQUAD YARD DEFENDER DISCLAIMER: Service packages may vary by location. Please check with your local Mosquito Squad to confirm what services are available in your area.  Essential Botanical Insecticide (EBI) may not be available in all locations. Please contact your local mosquito Squad for more details.